A Magnetospheric Substorm and the Motion of the Magnetopause

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A Magnetospheric Substorm and the Motion of the Magnetopause

Nikolaeva, N. S. / Parkhomov, V. A. / Borodkova, N. L. / Klimov, S. I. / Nozdrachev, M. N. / Romanov, S. A. / Yermolaev, Yu. I.

Abstract

Abstract Using a single event as an example, we make an analysis of the time development of a substorm and estimate its influence on the motion of the low-latitude boundary of the magnetosphere. To this end, we compare the data on plasma and magnetic field obtained by five spacecraft (WIND, INTERBALL-1, GEOTAIL, GOES-8, and GOES-9) with measurements made by ground-based stations. It is shown that the release of energy of the geomagnetic tail begins from a disruption of the current sheet near the Earth. The high-speed plasma stream that transfers a magnetic flux to the Earth and can have an effect on the magnetic field configuration near the Earth is detected later. Almost simultaneously with a substorm onset a series of magnetopause crossings has been detected by the INTERBALL-1 satellite on the evening side of the low-latitude magnetosphere. In this paper we consider some of possible causes of this motion of the magnetosphere boundary, including variations of parameters of the solar wind, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, and substorm processes. It is shown that fast motions of the magnetopause are detected almost simultaneously with field variations in the near magnetotail of the Earth and geomagnetic pulsations Pi2 on ground-based stations. A sufficiently high degree of correlation (K = 0.67) between the amplitude of Pi2 pulsations and the amplitude of magnetic field variations near the magnetopause is probably indicative of the connection of short-term motions of the magnetosphere boundary with the tail current disruption and the process of formation of a substorm current wedge.

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Title :

A Magnetospheric Substorm and the Motion of the Magnetopause

Contributors:

Nikolaeva, N. S. (author) / Parkhomov, V. A. (author) / Borodkova, N. L. (author) / Klimov, S. I. (author) / Nozdrachev, M. N. (author) / Romanov, S. A. (author) / Yermolaev, Yu. I. (author)

Published in:

Cosmic Research ; 43 , 4 ; 233-244

Publication date :

2005-07-01

Size :

12 pages

ISSN :

1608-3075 , 0010-9525

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10604-005-0041-5

Type of media :

Article (Journal)